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Cap bearing the badge of the Indian Police Service, the highest-trained level of police officers who must pass the Indian civil service exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

With exam season fast approaching, students and their families accepted that future generations, rather than the current cohort, would be most likely to benefit from permanent staff recruitment.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Two decades later, I sat in an exam room with a new gynecologist, answering routine questions: Age of first period.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

After graduating in 2007, he joined a tutoring agency in Beijing that helps university students prepare for the national graduate entrance exam.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

As Darwin was beginning to write his opus on evolution in the spring of 1856, Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna to retake the teacher’s exam that he had failed in 1850.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee